meetup

The August Brevard County meetup was held last night in Melbourne at the offices of GMRS - thanks to Gil and his employer for hosting.

Gil provided a walkthrough of Drupal Commons - we decided it was a great starting point for a groups-based sites with lots of features out-of-the box.

We also decided to plan out the topics and presenters for the next five meetups. They are:

We had a new remote participant (Jason Graham) that sent me a Skype request before the meetup (my Skype ID is my first name concatenated with my last name).

Remote :
Coral Springs - Jason Graham http://PolishYourImage.com/

In Person (Fort Lauderdale, Broward County - half way between Miami and Boca Raton):
Jay Epstein http://www.usielectronics.com
Me

We started the meeting by using a Skype conference call, and we used the Skype Share option (suggested by Jason)to share our desktops with each other (i.e. we did not have to use Yugma or TeamViewer).

We held our first virtual meetup with remote participation.

Remote (from furthest to closest):
Seattle - Chris Parsons http://www.chris-parsons.com
Houston - Phil and Jason Smith http://siliconvalet.net/
Miami - Vince Youmans http://vyoumans.com/

In Person (Fort Lauderdale, Broward County - half way between Miami and Boca Raton):
Jay Epstein http://www.usielectronics.com
Carlos Kosloff http://www.ladywig.com
Me

Synopsis for Broward Drupal Meetup held on June 9th 2010:

At the beginning of the meetup, we shared all .mp3 files and slides of the past meetup. After initial introductions, two people gave presentations.

Below is a summary of the presentations:
Chris Parsons (@chillin411) presented (slides and demo) of theming with Zen. It was a detailed presentation with a lot of insight into themeing.

Before anything else, I'm taking this opportunity to congratulate everyone who participated at our Summer Meetup last May 22nd. A lot of people have been calling it a "success", and your feedback are indeed very inspiring. Let's all take credit in this wonderful achievement!

Without you, it couldn't have been more fun & dynamic.

Without you, we won't be having another meetup.

You heard that right! We're doing it again. ;)

Because of your awesome participation, we are ready to move forward to the next chapter of our community building.

What we learned.

Last night Brevard Drupalists met at the offices of GMRS in Melbourne for a 2.5-hour meetup.

There were 7 people in attendance including two new faces. During the meetup Gil did a nice overview of the Features module followed by my presentation of a potpourri a Drupal modules including Radioactivity, Zenophile, Views Unpublished, and Override Node Options.

Gil and Mike also sent some time sharing their knowledge about Drush and Drush Make, including showing how to get it up and running quickly.

Synopsis for Broward Drupal Meetup held on May 12th 2010:

After initial introductions, two people gave presentations (location has flat screen TV with VGA connection).

Below is a summary of the presentations:
I gave a slide presentation on the Sessions/BoFs I attended at DrupalCon San Francisco
Chris Parsons presented (slides and demo) of Rotating Banners

After the two presentations, we discussed DrupalCamp Miami, the so-called Drupal security issue and CivicCRM.

Det vore kul om vi hann med ett möte tillsammans innan semestern börjar. Om tillräckligt många är intresserade kan NodeOne undersöka möjligheten att ordna lokal och vi kan göra en halvdagsaktivitet (från kl 13.00 och framåt) av det. Om vi gör en halvdag kan vi alla träffas för att jobba ihop på drupalsverige.se-webbplatsen och översättningen av Drupal 7 (för att ge några förslag). Jag måste dock först veta hur många som är intresserade och vilka datum i sådana fall.

Klicka på länken nedan och fyll i ditt användarnamn här på gruppen samt vilka datum som passar dig.

Hello Accrans

The IDLELO open source conference (http://idlelo.net) is taking place next week in Accra, Ghana.

I'm heading over there to present on mobile application development with Drupal and it would be great if any fellow Drupalistas would be up for a Drupal get-together over drinks.

As I'm obviously new in town, any suggestions on where said encounter could take place would be very welcome?

Hope to see you all next week. I'm very excited to be meeting the Ghana Drupal Community.

Cheers.
Joeri

Hi all,

The Silicon Valley LAMP meetup group is looking for a speaker to give a presentation about Drupal at an upcoming meetup on coming Thursday (Apr 29, 6:30pm) at Yahoo! Sunnyvale. YDN is willing to evangelize via Twitter etc.

If you're interested, or know someone who might be, please reply or email me at (aadityabhatia at gmail) ASAP.

Ref: http://lampsoftware.meetup.com/8/calendar/12968979/

Aaditya
http://www.dragonsblaze.com/